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Kalidasa

Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

On Virtue

The Nature of Beneficence

Freely the sun gives all his beams to wake

The lotus slumbering in the darkened lake;

The moon unasked expends her gentle light,

Wooing to bloom her lily of the night;

Unasked the cloud its watery burden gives.

The noble nature in beneficence lives;

Unsought, unsued, not asking kindness back

Does good in secret for that good’s sole sake.